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jimmy joe, the hippybilly boy - ed sanders lyrics

jimmy joe, the hippybilly boy

well, it’s hard to say what it was that started him down the long, piney trail to freakhood
maybe it was when his cousin kathleen got run over by a bulldozer
or maybe it was the six*o’clock news, i don’t know
but all of a sudden, he let his hair grow long, long, lord, long
and he wore love beads around his neck and he started making weird things down in shop class

lord, lord, lord
jimmy joe, the hippybilly boy

his teachers didn’t mind so much the love beads or when he wore body paint to the prom
but, buddy, when he came to the county track meet and wore nothing but a purple petrified taper*snout for an athletic supporter
boy, he got snuffed out of school
he didn’t mind
most of the time he stayed out in the woods and wrote poetry
by summer, he harvested seventeen bails of hemp alongside the railroad tracks, and…
he stopped going to christian youth fellowship, and…
he even tried to get my daughter carolyn to go out in the woods to meditate with him

lord, lord, lord
jimmy joe, the hippybilly boy

well, he saw something he called a “vision of the grail” on a muskrat run near his home here in kabul
and believe in magic, there’s a joke all over town about how they oughta put up a chainlink fence around the graveyard
folks didn’t know what they were seeing
he wore an osage indian headband and he wouldn’t go out for football, even thought he’d been a star left halfback in the tristate junior high school midget football league
people’d say, “jimmy joe, why don’t you just go on off to san francisco?”
and jimmy’d smile and he’d say, “well, i love the ozarks and i love the limestone caves and the ridges and the purple mists”
“and i love the veils and veils of [?]”
lord, lord, lord
jimmy joe, the hippybilly boy

well, he was out by the big blue river on sat*rday night late
meditating and writing poetry
and he saw far below, a pair of car lights on the highway
then they went wobbly and he heard a crash
and he saw the car go over the side of the big blue river
and jimmy ran down to the riverbank
but all he could see was gurgles and bubbles rising where the car had gone under the water
so he ripped off his clothes and he stood there naked in the moonlight with his osage headband glistening
and he did a forward one*and*a*half somersault with a half*twist
and went down into the cold, murky murk of the big blue river
and he had to go real deep, but somehow he found the car and he got the car door open
and he pulled out the people inside, ol’ nadine hefner and danny whistler
and he got ’em up on the riverbank and then he began to worry that maybe there was somebody else down in the car trapped
so he went back down into the abysmal, dismal depths of the big blue river
and he never came up

fifteen minutes later, the state police went down to get him
and they found jimmy joe with his long, brown hair wrapped around the rear*view mirror
oh, the whole town came out to jimmy’s funeral
and reverend alan read some of jimmy’s poetry
and lord, lord, lord, they weeped just as loud before a hippybilly boy as they weeped for anybody else
and as they carried the plain, brown, bronze casket from the graveyard
the country choir sang the lordly hymn…
what a friend we have in jesus
all our sins and griefs to bear
what a friend we have in jesus
everything to god in prayer
o, what peace we often forfeit
everything to god in prayer
what a friend we have in jesus
everything to god in prayer

lord, lord, lord
jimmy joe, the hippybilly boy

- ed sanders lyrics

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